I usually plan my day in the morning, which can actually take up valuable time when I am my freshest. After seeing this video I am reconsidering.

Jack Canfield makes a compelling case for planning your day the night before. This way it gives your subconscious time to work, so that you come prepared and ready with fresh ideas about how to accomplish what you set up the previous night.

Try and see if it works for you. I would love to hear your experiences.

By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny.

– Ruth Barrick Golden

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time, or the tools, to write.

Stephen King

“Ah, well, I am a great & sublime fool.   But then I am God’s fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.”

Mark Twain.

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

Patanjali

“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread.”

John Muir

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

- Harold Whitman (Howard Thurman)

I used to love telesummits and spent endless hours listening to them. I even thought of organizing one myself.   Right now however my head is busting with information I have no time to digest.  The thought of another telesummit makes me feel slightly nauseous.   So when a coaching friend said she was planning a telesummit I launched on just a little bit of a rant.

Yes I so much admired her bravery in undertaking such a big and challenging project.   But I begged of her ” do it differently, and whatever you do please don’t call it a  telesummit”.  By any other name it would sound so much sweeter!

Yes, and please not hours and hours of talking heads.  Some creative interludes, poetry, songs, whatever…. shorter punchier sessions.   A spa day, or retreat week for the soul – not a telesummit for the burnt-out brain.

My friend fortunately did not take offense.  She  emailed me later thanking me for my suggestions about how to make her online event something more “sizzly.”   Being how she’s such a creative soul, I can’t wait to see what she comes up with for her “UN- Telesummit! ”   I’ll tell you more when I hear.

Okay this is not an easy lesson. I mean I really would like things to be all perfect and just so, so right.  But nothing could be more wrong, wrong, wrong… than that endless trying to get it just right, right right!

Because pursuit of perfection most often leaves you missing opportunities, procrastinating, or taking an absolutely insane amount of time on details that don’t really matter.

Like the quest for the perfect website, which you keep changing, and never have time to build traffic for, or the article you prepare that you work on again and again, trying to polish every word until it becomes stale, stale, stale.

You see as every successful person emphasizes time and time again, it’s action that counts not the fact of being brilliant. And action that is imperfect.

Trying to be perfect has to be one of the most perfect ways of failing.

So my friends, lets drink to ” imperfection-ism”…..to swallowing our pride, making ourselves vulnerable and making all those god damn mistakes. Because perfection is just a pipe dream leading to paralysis, and death by analysis!

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

~ Helen Keller